BFI 61st London Film Festival Part 3 by Helen M Jerome

AND NOW… HERE ARE THOSE DVDfever AWARDS FOR 2017 IN FULL:

25 Best Films:

The Shape of Water
Happy End
Fantastic Woman
Summer of 93
Call Me By Your Name
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Mudbound
Journey’s End
Lady Bird
Loveless
The Lovers
Downsizing
Strangled
Spoor
Life Guidance
The Guardians
120 BPM
Ingrid Goes West
Brigsby Bear
Florida Project
Beast
Funny Cow
The Party
Killing of a Sacred Deer
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Most Promising Director:

Greta Gerwig: Lady Bird
Michael Pearce: Beast
Carla Simon: Summer 1993
Chloe Zhao: The Rider
Paddy Considine: Journeyman
Mikko Makela: Moment in the Reeds
Gilles Coulier: Cargo
Eliza Hittman: Beach Rats
Xavier Legrand: Custody

Most Promising New Performers:

Brooklynn Kimberly Prince in The Florida Project
Laia Artigas in Summer 1993
Jessie Buckley in Beast
Iris Bry in The Guardians
Daniela Vega in A Fantastic Woman
Barry Keoghan in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Julia Jedikowska in Sicilian Love Story
Jessie Pinnick in Princess Cyd
Fantine Harduin in Happy End
Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke in Thoroughbred
Harris Dickinson in Beach Rats

Best Comedy:

Lady Bird
Runners-up: Downsizing, Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West, The Lovers, Funny Cow, The Party

Best Thrillers:

Beast, Strangled, Shape of Water, Spoor, Life Guidance

Best Drama:

Happy End
Runners-up: Mudbound, Loveless, Call Me By Your Name, A Fantastic Woman

Best Director:

Michael Haneke: Happy End; Martin McDonagh: Three Billboards…; Andrey Zvyagintsev: Loveless; Sebastian Lelio: A Fantastic Woman.

Best Actress:

Frances McDormand in Three Billboards…
Runners-up: Patricia Clarkson in The Party; Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water; Trine Dyrholm in Nico, 1988; Maxine Peake in Funny Cow; Annette Bening in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.

Best Actor:

Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here
Runners-up: Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards…; Timothee Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name; Michael Shannon in The Shape of Water; Fritz Karl in Life Guidance.

Best Ensemble:

Happy End, Three Billboards…, The Party

Best Ending:

The Party, Ingrid Goes West

Biggest Labour of Love:

Loving Vincent

Best President Macron Lookalike:

Mindhunter’s Jonathan Groff

Annual Festival Ubiquity Award (aka the Kristin Scott Thomas Award)

Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird, On Chesil Beach (right and Loving Vincent.
Stephen Graham for Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, Funny Cow, Journey’s End.

Most Disappointing:

Zama
Meyerowitz Stories
Person to Person
Racer and the Jailbird
9 Fingers
1%

Best Documentaries:

No Stone Unturned
Ex Libris
78/52
Makala
Roller Dreams
Jane
The Final Year